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单词 conceitist
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conceitistn.

Brit. /kənˈsiːtɪst/, U.S. /kənˈsidəst/
Forms: 1600s conceitest, 1600s conceitist.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: conceit n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < conceit n. + -ist suffix.
1. A maker of conceits (conceit n. 9a); a craftsman. Obsolete.In quot. in figurative context.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > creator or inventor
craftsmana1382
feigner1382
finderc1384
finder-upc1425
engineer?a1513
finder-out1534
inventor1555
conceiver1581
conceiter1603
conceitist1628
commenter1645
ideas man1845
think-man1967
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lv. sig. R8v As a Conceitest, it [sc. Logicke] hath laid on so many colours, that the counterfeit is more various then the patterne.
2. A person who employs literary conceits.spec. with reference to the 17th-century metaphysical poets; cf. metaphysical adj. 3a.
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1881 Bull. Essex (Mass.) Inst. 13 20 Never a masculine simplicity... In the great realms of English verse, a dandy. What the old conceitists were, mannered.
1939 T. H. Johnson Poet. Wks. Edward Taylor 16 The reader need not search afield for analogues among the verses of the seventeenth-century conceitists to explain Taylor's choice of subject.
1944 Princeton Alumni Weekly 7 July 36 (advt.) Writing poetry in the tradition of Donne and the Anglo-Catholic conceitists.
1995 J. R. Goetsch Vico's Axioms vi. 71 The French critics insisted that what the conceitists called ingenium was merely reason in a figural..mode.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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